Sometimes as an English teacher I am reminded of exactly how much it is that I learn from my students. The funny thing about education is that it is quite often a two way street in that the learning process is front. In order to teach my students, automatically it means that I have to review the material that I intend to cover. Whenever my students request courses that I may be a bit unfamiliar with, I have to work twice as hard to learn the material and figure how best to teach it so that I don't sound like a total idiot. :)
Besides the material covered, I also learn a lot about different fields and disciplines. My students over the years come from an amazing variety of backgrounds and all possess very unique areas of interest and talents. Whenever they wish to share with me what it is that they do from the day to day, I often get engaged in deep conversations just about anything not limited to philosophy, education, politics, finances, engineering, marketing, music, art, gardening, and etc. This is really cool to me because I get to learn new things and gain new perspectives.
Take Anissa for example. She is a university student and currently majoring in biology. I will never forget how much I hated studying biology in high school, but when she explained certain aspects about biology, I found myself thoroughly intrigued and curious at the same time. Whoever knew that I would become interested in this science after so long despising it so much?
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